Quran glossary · draft

ٱلْمُنْخَنِقَة

strangled animal

An animal killed when constriction stops its breathing.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: خنق

Lemmas: منخنقة

Forms: مُنْخَنِقَةُ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

5:3

حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْمَيْتَةُ وَٱلدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ ٱلْخِنزِيرِ وَمَآ أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ ٱللَّهِ بِهِۦ وَٱلْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَٱلْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَٱلْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَٱلنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَآ أَكَلَ ٱلسَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى ٱلنُّصُبِ وَأَن تَسْتَقْسِمُوا۟ بِٱلْأَزْلَٰمِ ذَٰلِكُمْ فِسْقٌ ٱلْيَوْمَ يَئِسَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن دِينِكُمْ فَلَا تَخْشَوْهُمْ وَٱخْشَوْنِ ٱلْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِى وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ ٱلْإِسْلَٰمَ دِينًا فَمَنِ ٱضْطُرَّ فِى مَخْمَصَةٍ غَيْرَ مُتَجَانِفٍ لِّإِثْمٍ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal review covered the sole occurrence of the feminine Form VII active participle مُنْخَنِقَة at 5:3. It occurs in a coordinated list of prohibited animal-death categories alongside carrion, blood, swine flesh, animals dedicated to another, animals killed by a blow, fall, goring, or predation, followed by an exception for what is properly slaughtered before death. This list position and exception establish an animal whose death results from constriction cutting off its breath rather than proper slaughter. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.